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Here are the headlines. You need to know an update late this afternoon from the Georgia election trial. According to prosecutors, it could take four months to complete a trial for former president Donald Trump and the other 18 defendants in the case with as many as 150 witnesses potentially testifying lawyers for several of the defendants are asking the court to conduct the trials separately from each other while the DAS Office wants them all to be tried together. This is the first hearing on the Georgia election case and of course, we will be following this very, very closely and a possible hiccup ahead for Donald Trump's 2024 presidential campaign, a liberal, a liberal group. It's called the Citizens for ethics and responsibility in Washington files a lawsuit today hoping to bar Trump from the primary ballot in Colorado. They cited the 14th amendment and it's a rarely used clause in the constitution aimed at candidates who have supported an insurrection. The group says this clause makes him ineligible to run for the White House. This may be the beginning of other states challenging Trump's eligibility and lead to cases that would end up before the Supreme Court. A judge has ruled former President Donald Trump is liable for death defamation against writer Eugene Carroll. For comments he made in 2019. Trump denied Carroll's claims that he raped her in a department store dressing room that was in the 19 nineties. In his ruling, the judge said a may verdict in which a jury awarded Carroll $5 million in damages established that Trump made his comments with quote actual malice. The upcoming trial is set to begin January 15th 2024. It will only determine how much Trump should pay carroll in damages. An update to a story we've been following out of Spain, one of the country's soccer stars, Jennifer Hermoso has filed an official complaint against Luis Rubiales, their soccer federation president. This comes after Hermoso says she was subjected to an unwanted kiss from Rubiales after the women's world Cup final. Rubiales who has been suspended for 90 days by the sport's governing body has apologized but also described the kiss as being mutual which Hermoso has denied. The official complaint filing is the next step needed for the judicial system to proceed with a case against Rubiales. Authorities believe they know how a convicted murderer was able to escape from a Pennsylvania prison last Thursday. Sources tell CNN that this man on your screen, Velo Caval climbed onto the roof of the Chester County prison. That's how he was able to flee. Court documents confirm another inmate was able to escape from the same facility in May. In a news conference yesterday, the Chester County D A said the prison quote have made efforts to correct those vulnerabilities. Two school districts in the area closed for the second day as police continue to search for this fugitive. A Michigan court is set to hear arguments today. In the case of former police officer Christopher Shore, he's charged with shooting a black motorist last year. She's legal team is trying to have the charge thrown out saying lower courts wrongly applied the law to the circumstances surrounding the death of Patrick Leo. The team said this quote officer, she reasonably believed a felony had occurred and reason believed that Leo had committed that felony justifying his use of deadly force to prevent lio from fleeing from arrest. The victim was shot in the back of the head after a traffic stop turned into a foot chase and ultimately a struggle. Idaho woman, Laurie Vallo DeBell has appealed her convictions in the murders of two of her Children over questions of whether she was mentally competent to stand trial. This is all according to a motion her attorney filed in the State Supreme Court last week, a jury convicted Vallo Day Bell in May of murdering her Children. 16 year old Tyle Ryan and seven year old JJ Vallo. A judge originally ruled she was incompetent to stand trial but she was later ruled fit for trial after nearly a year in a mental hospital. Her husband Chad Day Bell is scheduled to be tried separately in April of next year, 61 people have been indicted on racketeering charges in Atlanta for protesting the proposed police training facility called cop city protests against the building of the facility have been ongoing for the past two years. More than half of those indicted are already facing domestic terrorism charges. In a news conference yesterday, the D A accused the defendants of quote, conducting, coordinating and organizing acts of violence intimidation and property destruction activists countered with a statement saying the charges, quote will not silence our commitment to standing up for our future, our community and our city. Just hours ago, a Russian missile struck a market in eastern Ukraine. It did kill at least 16 people in one of the deadliest attacks in months. According to local officials, at least 31 people are injured. The prosecutor General's office says 20 shops, an apartment building and an administrative building were all damaged. Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelinsky condemned Russia for the utter inhumanity of attacking a civilian target saying the strike was deliberate. Meanwhile, Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited Ukraine's capital city of Kiev today where he vowed long term support for the country's defense against Russia's invasion during the visit. He is expected to pledge more than a billion dollars in additional aid to the country. Lincoln said this, I'm here first and foremost to demonstrate our ongoing and determined support for Ukraine as it deals with this aggression. We want to make sure that Ukraine has what it needs, not only to succeed in the counter offensive but has what it needs for the long term to make sure that it has a strong deterrent. Lincoln is to meet with the Ukraine President Zelinsky. During this visit, Moderna has released new data that shows promising results against the latest variant of COVID-19. According to their research, the company says their updated vaccine will likely be effective against the new B A 2 86 sub variant of the virus that updated shot has yet to be approved by the FDA. But the drug maker hopes it will be available by the end of this month or early October legendary game show host, Bob Barker died of Alzheimer's disease. That's according to his death certificate which was authenticated by NBC news yesterday. The Prices right host died at age 99 on August 26. His cause of death had not previously been revealed. Barker hosted the Game Show for 35 years. His publicist previously said he would be buried in a Los Angeles cemetery with his late wife. There will be no memorial service. That's again according to his publicist.